Bovada: Depositing via VISA card = Foreign transaction fee
July 30th, 2013 at 5:48:37 AM
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for your 1st deposit, bovada waves their 5% fee for VISA deposits.
unfortunately, it seems that your credit card company will charge you a foreign transaction fee.
I got lucky in that my credit card is just 1%. a lot of others charge 3%.
(capital one is 0%, but I don't have their VISA.)
it was a 1.184% fee. i'm assuming the .184% is the exchange rate round off?
Just a FYI
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I just looked up my credit card. they eliminated their foreign transaction fees for ALL their credit cards in 2011?!
guess i'm going to call Bovada up.
unfortunately, it seems that your credit card company will charge you a foreign transaction fee.
I got lucky in that my credit card is just 1%. a lot of others charge 3%.
(capital one is 0%, but I don't have their VISA.)
it was a 1.184% fee. i'm assuming the .184% is the exchange rate round off?
Just a FYI
edit:
I just looked up my credit card. they eliminated their foreign transaction fees for ALL their credit cards in 2011?!
guess i'm going to call Bovada up.
Craps is paradise (Pair of dice).
Lets hear it for the SpeedCount Mathletes :)
July 30th, 2013 at 7:52:26 AM
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If I had to guess it is Bovada trying to make sure the transaction is not exactly $50/$100 etc because those are more likely to look like gambling than $99.85 or $101.84. That was an old trick and some places still do it.
